Nov 20, 2013, 7:48 am
Last edit by: Pat89339
Do not call the airlines under any conditions! This is the fastest way to kill the trick and bring unwanted attention to your itinerary! And do not post precious deals in this thread, this is by far the fastest way to kill the trick!
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This is NOT the right place to ask: "Can you help me with a low fare for AAA-BBB?" This is not the beg-it thread, but the trick-it thread.
This thread deals with unique combinations of routes and booking tricks in order to lower prices on airline fares. Prices that would astound the general public are often achieved by the posters in this thread.
Many people, including airline representatives, monitor this thread. For that reason, it is unorganized, very content heavy, often lacking details, and written in shorthand. It takes patience and effort in order to understand the conversation and be able to participate as an active member.
We encourage you to read the entirety of this thread if you would like to get started and to experiment as soon as you understand the gist of Trick It. Lots of time spent reading, practicing, and learning is the only way to be able to reproduce our tricks and discover new ones yourself. There are many, many people who ask for advice here, so productive members are only able to help those who have shown a concerted effort and progress over a long period of time (months).
If you have no idea what this thread is about, a good place to start are various blogs' posts on the subject. At the very least, read the Rules for posting in this thread. They're also listed in the very first post, below.
Older portions of the thread have been separated into archive thread by year. They are listed below
2008 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2009 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2010 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2011 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2012 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2013 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2014 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
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This is NOT the right place to ask: "Can you help me with a low fare for AAA-BBB?" This is not the beg-it thread, but the trick-it thread.
This thread deals with unique combinations of routes and booking tricks in order to lower prices on airline fares. Prices that would astound the general public are often achieved by the posters in this thread.
Many people, including airline representatives, monitor this thread. For that reason, it is unorganized, very content heavy, often lacking details, and written in shorthand. It takes patience and effort in order to understand the conversation and be able to participate as an active member.
We encourage you to read the entirety of this thread if you would like to get started and to experiment as soon as you understand the gist of Trick It. Lots of time spent reading, practicing, and learning is the only way to be able to reproduce our tricks and discover new ones yourself. There are many, many people who ask for advice here, so productive members are only able to help those who have shown a concerted effort and progress over a long period of time (months).
If you have no idea what this thread is about, a good place to start are various blogs' posts on the subject. At the very least, read the Rules for posting in this thread. They're also listed in the very first post, below.
Older portions of the thread have been separated into archive thread by year. They are listed below
2008 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2009 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2010 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2011 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2012 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2013 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2014 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
Trick it / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
Sep 11, 2019, 5:05 am
#9738
Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: YVR
Programs: Aeroplan
Posts: 11
C3 - C1w
C3 - C1w $184 all-in RT
ITAable, bookable on world's largest OTA.
Also works in reverse
C1w - C3 $202 all-in RT, same carriers.
Travel with checked bags no problem
C3 - another C1w city can be lower than $164 All-in RT.
ITAable, bookable on world's largest OTA.
Also works in reverse
C1w - C3 $202 all-in RT, same carriers.
Travel with checked bags no problem
C3 - another C1w city can be lower than $164 All-in RT.
Sep 12, 2019, 10:10 pm
#9741
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: YUL
Programs: AC E75, WS Gold, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond, GHA Plat, UA Silver, SQ Silver
Posts: 215
Over the last 20+ hours, i had been pondering through a lot of posts here and somewhere in the history to figure out the FD game. Over the hours, could figure out some tricks and decrypt part of the puzzle. But by the time those are figured out - i realized that they dont work anymore. :P
Having said that, was able to dump YQ completely on a C1-C3 using a 3X. However, couldn't replicate to other C1 cities
Having gone through a lot of 3x codes, just want to ask your guidance to figure out working codes - primarily that can help in C1-C2, C1-C3, C1-C4 FD's ?
Especially beyond Northern Neighbor, XXX miler, San Martin Trail as confirmed by WWE in a recent post.
Having said that, was able to dump YQ completely on a C1-C3 using a 3X. However, couldn't replicate to other C1 cities
Having gone through a lot of 3x codes, just want to ask your guidance to figure out working codes - primarily that can help in C1-C2, C1-C3, C1-C4 FD's ?
Especially beyond Northern Neighbor, XXX miler, San Martin Trail as confirmed by WWE in a recent post.
Last edited by jugaadkabaap; Sep 13, 2019 at 7:28 pm
Sep 13, 2019, 8:06 am
#9742
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: CDG, ORY
Posts: 116
Thanks for all people who participated on the last 50 euros ticket battle
i Think that a lot of you now is happy for loosing a nice dump who starting month ago too risky and now totally dead .....
im not really surprised and I was waiting this day sooner because this special one was POSTEDDDDDDDD abusively each HOUR ... like more than a medical treatement.
Good look for all.
im not really surprised and I was waiting this day sooner because this special one was POSTEDDDDDDDD abusively each HOUR ... like more than a medical treatement.
Good look for all.
Sep 13, 2019, 8:34 am
#9743
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: FRA Im Herzen von Europa
Programs: M&M, IHG
Posts: 78
too bad. 
Now some guys have nothing what they can post here.
It is always the same game. If deals are posted here over and over again, then you can wait for airlines action.
TK had here a daily newsletter service, later DL. Now the C3 Stopover airline.
But, hey. That is only my opinion.
Some guys knows it better.
See Wwe´s post #9674 (no offence, only example). Airlines use their time to fix it. Some airlines need more time. Some others not. The time for dumping this airline in general on a cheap way is over now.
If you had your ear in the FD-community during the last months, then you know that thousands of such tickets were sold. Also to a lot of people with no interest in FD.
Finally it was too much for the airline to close their eyes much longer.
Now some guys have nothing what they can post here.
It is always the same game. If deals are posted here over and over again, then you can wait for airlines action.
TK had here a daily newsletter service, later DL. Now the C3 Stopover airline.
But, hey. That is only my opinion.
Some guys knows it better.
See Wwe´s post #9674 (no offence, only example). Airlines use their time to fix it. Some airlines need more time. Some others not. The time for dumping this airline in general on a cheap way is over now.
If you had your ear in the FD-community during the last months, then you know that thousands of such tickets were sold. Also to a lot of people with no interest in FD.
Finally it was too much for the airline to close their eyes much longer.
Sep 13, 2019, 9:58 am
#9744
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: YUL
Programs: AC E75, WS Gold, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond, GHA Plat, UA Silver, SQ Silver
Posts: 215
Could improvise on the previous trick to slaughter 100% YQ on mapleleaf & bride on certain C3 / C4 destinations. But couldn't (yet) figure out more.
any pointers on finding a C1-C2 or C1 -> India ?
any pointers on finding a C1-C2 or C1 -> India ?
Sep 15, 2019, 9:12 pm
#9746
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: YUL
Programs: AC E75, WS Gold, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond, GHA Plat, UA Silver, SQ Silver
Posts: 215
When i tried C1-C2 (from mapleleaf country), almost every fare that i can find to C2 was EOE not permitted. There were a few exceptions like EI, LOT etc on few segments but then the base fares were so high so didn't explore much.
I am also curious to know if C1-C2 on AC, DL, TK, BA etc can be FD'ed !
Sep 16, 2019, 12:55 am
#9747
Join Date: Jul 2016
Posts: 146
Posts are published, if and when the poster decides to choose to publish them. In the recent days/weeks, people decided to cut open a golden egg laying hen and hence a slurry of posts terminating in C3. Unfortunately, the hen was located in C3 and you don't normally expect them to serve C1-C2 routes.
There maybe? a few other golden eggs laying varieties still left and I hope that people might take due care to not cut open these ones.
Last edited by andydd; Sep 16, 2019 at 7:49 am Reason: typo
Sep 16, 2019, 10:11 am
#9748
Suspended
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Kan@da
Programs: Anything with sweet spots
Posts: 1,790
Say you want to FD a roundtrip JFK-MXP with a 3X. When can the 3X be a segment that does NOT start or end with JFK or MXP?
As far as I understand:
End-on-end permitted: an additional segment can be added ONLY at the destination (MXP) such as MXP-ZRH
But when can the 3X be unrelated to the airports of the itinerary to be dumped ? Must the fare permit DOUBLE OPEN JAWS in order to be able to add a 3X segment that starts and ends in totally unrelated airports ?
As far as I understand:
End-on-end permitted: an additional segment can be added ONLY at the destination (MXP) such as MXP-ZRH
But when can the 3X be unrelated to the airports of the itinerary to be dumped ? Must the fare permit DOUBLE OPEN JAWS in order to be able to add a 3X segment that starts and ends in totally unrelated airports ?
Sep 18, 2019, 10:49 am
#9750
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 53
As far as I understand:
End-on-end permitted: an additional segment can be added ONLY at the destination (MXP) such as MXP-ZRH
End-on-end permitted: an additional segment can be added ONLY at the destination (MXP) such as MXP-ZRH
Some of the best tricks are on EoE not permitted fares. Because they are so much more complicated and require precise inputs to find, the tricks also live much much longer as the airlines can't figure it out either.